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Leaving Certificate History
The Revised SyllabusTopics for Study: an Introduction
History In-Service Team (HIST) Supporting Leaving Certificate History
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The role of the topic in the syllabus
Context within syllabus frameworkLayout of topic, using example of Ireland and the Union, 1815 – 1870.Specified learning outcomesSome comments from the guidelines.
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The syllabus framework Working with Evidence
Introduction –history and the historian
Documents – based study
Research study
Topics for Study
Early Modern
OR
Later Modern
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Parts I and II: links
Introduction – history and the historianThis will form the basis for future work on the topics…(Syl 5)
Students will undertake a documents-based study of one of the syllabus topics…(Syl 5)
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Topics for StudyChoose a field of study, either Early Modern or Later Modern 2 topics from Irish history2 topics from Europe and the Wider World1 of these 4 topics will be prescribed for a documents – based study
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Ire land 1494-1815
Euro pe and the Wider
Wo rld 1492-1815
Ireland 1815-1993
Euro pe and the Wider
Wo rld 1815-1992
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To p ic 2 T op ic 2 Top ic 2 To p ic 2
To p ic 3 T op ic 3 Top ic 3 To p ic 3
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Fields of StudyEarly modern Later modern
Topics for Study
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Syllabus Components
Documents- based
Study
Research Study
Introduction: history and the historian
Ireland
Europe and the Wider
World
11 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 4 5 6
Topics (4) from eitherEarly Modern or Later Modern
Field of Study
Topic 2 prescribed for documents –
based study
Working with Evidence
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Topic template
Topic to be studied through a range of perspectives
Politics and administration
Society and economy
Culture, religion and science
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Topic template
Key concepts
Key personalities
Case studiesElementsPerspectives
Culture, religion &science
Society & economy
Politics & administration
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Topic template
Elements
Viewed through prism of perspectives
Primary means of defining specific content
Represent breadth of coverage (GL)
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Topic template
Key concepts
Key personalities
Case studiesElementsPerspective
?Culture, religion &science
?Society & economy
?Politics & administration
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Topic template
The Irish countryside, 1815; economic crisis, 1815-1850; the Famine; the post-Famine economy; emigration; education; impact of the railways; industrial development in Belfast.
Society and economy
ElementsPerspective
LMI 1. Ireland and the Union, 1815 – 1870
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Topic template
Administrative and political structures under the Act of Union; O’Connell –the campaigns for Emancipation and Repeal, achievements; the Tithe War; the Poor Law; Young Ireland; government responses to Famine; electoral reform; sectarianism in politics; Fenianism; Liberal reforms.
Politics and administration
ElementsPerspective
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Topic template
Developments in the creation of cultural and religious identities; the creative arts; developments in science and technology.
Culture, religion and science
ElementsPerspective
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Topic template
Case studies
Each topic has three associated case studies, each of which involves an in-depth investigation of a particularly significant or representative aspect of an element of the topic (syl 11)
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Topic template
Key concepts
Key personalities
Case studiesElementsPerspective
?Culture, religion & science
?Society & economy
?Politics & administration
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Topic template
Private responses to Famine, 1845-1849
The Irish countryside, 1815; economic crisis, 1815-1850; the Famine; the post-Famine economy; emigration; education; impact of the railways; industrial development in Belfast.
Society and economy
Case StudiesElementsPerspective
LMI 1. Ireland and the Union, 1815 - 1870
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Topic template
The campaign for Catholic Emancipation, 1823-1829
Administrative and political structures under the Act of Union; O’Connell – the campaigns for Emancipation and Repeal, achievements; the Tithe War; the Poor Law; Young Ireland; government responses to Famine; electoral reform; sectarianism in politics; Fenianism; Liberal reforms.
Politics andadministration
Case StudiesElementsPerspective
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Topic template
The Synod of Thurles, 1850, and the Romanisation of the Catholic Church
Developments in the creation of cultural and religious identities; the creative arts; developments in science and technology.
Culture,religion & science
Case StudiesElementsPerspective
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Topic template
Key personalitiesTen key personalities are listed for each topicAll of those included have relevance to listed elementsNot intended as additional elements
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Topic template
Key concepts
Key personalities
?
Case studiesElementsPerspective
Culture, religion &science
Politics & administration
Society & economy
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Topic template
Students should be aware of the contribution of the following to the developments listed under the elements above:Daniel O’Connell; Thomas Davis; Charles Trevelyan; Charles Kickham; James Stephens; Asenath Nicholson; Mother Mary Aikenhead; Cardinal Paul Cullen; William Carleton; William Dargan.
LMI 1. Ireland and the Union, 1815 - 1870
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Topic template
Key conceptslisted for each topic, of particular importance for higher level students
not intended as additional elements(GL)
develop understanding of main issues in elements
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Topic template
Key concepts
?
Key personalities
Case studiesElementsPerspective
Culture, religion & science
Society & economy
Politics & administration
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Topic template
Key conceptsAnother “key” to developing understanding will be learning to identify the main issues through a familiarity with certain key concepts:The Union, sectarianism, Catholic Emancipation, physical force republicanism, laissez- faire, economic depression, dowry, landlordism, famine, nation,ultramontanism, evangelicalism.
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Students at both levels should be able to:
recall the main events as set down in the listed elements and, with particular reference to important changes identified therein, show a basic understanding of the main causes and consequences.
recognise that historical study is concerned not just with the powerful and influential but also with the ordinary and the anonymous. (syl 13)
Topics for study: learning outcomes
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Students at both levels should be able to
recall issues and events in case studies; give narrative accountlook at contentious or controversial issues from more than one point of view;particular reference to case studiesdescribe role of key personalities in elements (syl 13)
Topics for study: learning outcomes
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Topics for study: learning outcomes
In addition, Higher Level students should:recall main events; show good understanding of main causes and consequencesrecall issues and events in Case Studies; give discursive accountevaluate role of key personalities – awareness of current as well as contemporary attitudesshow understanding of relevance of key concepts to the topic (syl 13)
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Key principle underlying syllabus:The study of history should be regarded as an exploration of what historians believe to have happened, based on enquiry into available evidence (syl 8)
Exploration – enquiry – evidence
Key principle revisited
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Key syllabus aims
To develop an appreciation of the nature and variety of historical sources.To develop the ability to think critically.To recognise that the available evidence may be open to more than one valid interpretation.Students should be aware of bias and strive to be objective. (syl 4,5)
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Case studies – objectives
It should be noted that work on the case studies has a crucial role to play in the achievement of many of the key syllabus objectives e.g.
Understanding of procedural conceptsRecognition of nature of historical knowledgeDevelopment of evidence handling skills (GL)
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Topic template
Private responses to Famine, 1845-1849
The Irish countryside, 1815; economic crisis, 1815-1850; the Famine; the post-Famine economy; emigration; education; impact of the railways; industrial development in Belfast.
Society and economy
Case StudiesElementsPerspective
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Case Study: Document activity
Case study Types of sources Different perspectives
Private responses to Famine, 1845-1849
Private papers, government papers, newspaper comments, historians’ comments
Complimentary, critical, evaluative
Taken from Draft Guidelines, section on case studies
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Document activity: aims
This activity links with key aims:students should be able to look at a contentious or controversial issue from more than one point of viewstudents should learn to evaluate theirhistorical inheritance through the studyof history from a variety of perspectives(Syl4)
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Document 1William Hume writes to William Stanley about responses to famine at local level
Glen Lodge, Killybegs, 2nd April 1847Sir
I must confess, as a Landlord (not receiving any rent) my inability to assist my poor tenants in their need. But the plan of the Commissary General, I suppose accords with the views of Government, to procrastinate relief, until starvation and death ensues. This is I assure you the general impression.
Your obedient ServantWilliam Hume
William Stanley Esquire [Relief Commission Papers, RLFC 3/2/7/8]Courtesy of National Archives, Counties in Time CD Rom
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Document 2
The response of the Society of Friends to the Famine in 1846 and 1847.
The means placed at our disposal, including both money and food, amounted to nearly £200,000. Of this sum, £4,826 16s. 6d. was received from members of the Society of Friends in Ireland, independently of their local contributions; and £37,398 5s. 1ld. from the Committee of Friends in London. Other donors in England and Ireland, not members of the Society of Friends, entrusted their bounty to us to the amount of £4,065 6s, 8d+ But the chief source … was the munificent bounty of the citizens of the United States.
Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends during the Famine in Ireland, in 1846 and 1847(Dublin, 1852) p46
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Document 3
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Evaluating the documents
DescriptionWhat types of documents are these?What is the main point in each document?
Interpretation What contrasting responses to the famine are evident in these documents?
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In conclusionThe topic:
specified content
structured layout
range of perspectives
balances breadth (elements) and depth (case studies)